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  • Strategy Options Dialogue for Deep Adaptation

    Strategy Options Dialogue for Deep Adaptation

    Guest blog from Peter Wicks, a moderator of the Positive Deep Adaptation facebook group and coordinator of the strategy options dialogue.   “It happened while I was having lunch with a friend. Recently bereaved, I was looking for new ways to engage with the world. My friend said, “Have you heard the term Deep Adaptation?”… Read more

  • What Activism Next? Ideas for Climate Campaigners

    What Activism Next? Ideas for Climate Campaigners

    Thank goodness for the honesty of children and youth. In the Madrid summit on climate, Greta Thunberg said, that from an emissions perspective “we have achieved nothing”. All of us who have been trying to promote change on climate change, are finding that, if we are honest, at a cumulative level, our efforts amount to… Read more

  • Striking for Climate Safety

    Striking for Climate Safety

    A proposal for how trade unions and youth climate strikers can begin to work together with greater solidarity. … Continue reading Striking for Climate Safety → Read more

  • Deep Adaptation Quarterly Winter 2020

    Deep Adaptation Quarterly Winter 2020

    Last year we saw a major upswing in climate activism. But by the end of the year, questions were being asked by activists themselves about what to do next. … Continue reading Deep Adaptation Quarterly Winter 2020 → Read more

  • Avoiding Davos Disease as Climate Activists

    Avoiding Davos Disease as Climate Activists

    In announcing the theme for Davos 2020, the Executive Chairman at the World Economic Forum (WEF) explained that: “People are revolting against the economic ‘elites’ they believe have betrayed them…” In case you didn’t realise, Professor Klaus Schwab, was not welcoming the news. He was not celebrating the uprising of people calling for a different… Read more

  • Adapting deeply to likely collapse: an enhanced agenda for climate activists?

    Adapting deeply to likely collapse: an enhanced agenda for climate activists?

    Last year an Extinction Rebellion handbook called “This is Not a Drill” was published by Penguin, featuring a chapter I wrote on Deep Adaptation, called “Doom and Bloom”. It has some important chapters, and you can order it here. My chapter was edited for length, and so here is the original submitted version. I release… Read more

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